Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle of a team fighting so frantically against a "jinx" that it forgot the fundamentals of football. It tried to pass from its own 15-yd. line. A Purdue guard intercepted the pass, trotted across the goal. A Notre Dame fumble let Purdue forward pass to a second touchdown. Sheer demoralization permitted the third score. Three times Notre Dame penetrated beyond Purdue's 10yd. line, once to the 1-yd. line, only to collapse. It was Notre Dame's fourth shut-out of the season...
...sobering thought that the 1926 price level was based on a gold dollar of the old weight. . . . There is no point in insisting on a return to the old gold parity, but a scheme to depreciate the dollar to uncertain limits . . . does not inspire confidence. The peril of sheer greenbackism is real and not imaginary." Chamber of Commerce. At a special meeting dominated by chop-whiskered old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the New York State Chamber of Commerce solemnly resolved that "measures should be taken with the utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard...
...TIME for Oct. 23 under the title Crime, 'Hardest Jail." the following statement is made: "Its" rocky sides rising sheer as a battleship, swept by tidal currents too strong for any man to swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco...
...ragged, open style the "speed merchants" were able to reel off sizeable gains, but against a team like West Point these unassisted sprints will not stand a chance. Furthermore, Eddie Casey seems willing to let his quarterbacks continue the policy of running one man in play after play until sheer weariness forces his retirement. For the better part of one period Lehigh could count on Allie Sherman carrying the ball. Their defense acted accordingly...
...rocky sides rising sheer as a battleship's, swept by tidal currents too strong for any man to swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz means pelican. The island was used by the Spaniards as a harbor fortification. In its sandstone bowels are deep dungeons and underground passages. For years the War Department has used it as a military prison. Last week the island was transferred to the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings announced that its 600-cell jail would become the home of the nation's worst criminals...